This is the meaning of life:
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Thread's over
The answer is 42
[QUOTE=farmatyr;30398723]If life is meaningless, everything is meaningless. Then why does the word "meaning" exist?[/QUOTE]
Because meaning can be an opinion, and has multiple definitions! :eng101:
[QUOTE=AWarGuy;30399108]The answer is 42[/QUOTE]
Common misconception. 42 is the answer to the ultimate question, as given by the computer Deep Thought. Deep Thought then planned the construction of a second computer [sp]the Earth[/sp] to figure out the ultimate question.
There is no meaning to life, only what you give it. Such as you meaning to life would be to protect a child and raise him, how ever it can also be that you that child's life hell as well. Thread over, naw not really.
Fast threads is the meaning of life
Simple. You were not created with purpose, we just happened to luck out, the universe was capable of creating consciousness, and with it, happiness.
Now, despite everything being created without purpose, happiness has worth in itself, it does, there's really no point in asking why, it's just a rule of the Universe.
And it's the ONLY thing that has worth. Why?
Because we have already established that the only thing that can have worth must be associated with consciousnesses, because everything else is just a bunch of inert matter, which, as we assumed, is meaningless. Consciousness comes from inert matter, but is special, I don't know how, I don't know how consciousnesses come to be, but they ARE capable to giving meaning to things.
Anyhow, and to have a consciousness is to be aware of things (to sense) and to sense is to feel. Every thought boils down to an emotion, because it is impossible to work with data without investing emotionally into it. even indifference is an emotion, well, it's the lack of emotion but it still requires emotions to exist. You can't be indifferent being able to feel about it. Indifference is the perception of a lack of emotion, to feel it, you must recognize that there used to be an emotion, and as such, you have to have felt that emotion.
And all emotions can be constructed a combination of happiness and unhappiness relating to something. Jealousy is unhappiness regarding the fact you do not have something but the other person does, love is happiness regarding the other person, etc.
And if there is nothing more to consciousness than happiness and unhappiness (which is objectively evil as happiness is objectively good) and their targets (inert matter that has no purpose and worth), than all that has worth is happiness, meaning that the meaning of life is to maximize happiness.
This branches out to ALL consciousnesses.
Had fun writing that.
The meaning of life is found through experiences, whether they are good, bad or neutral.
Trust me, I'm from the future
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I always thought that Stephen Fry was the last man alive to know why he chose 42.
How amazingly dull.
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That just raised a new question, why 42?
It seems that it comes from a book The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll. [/QUOTE]
ahahahah oh wow did you really just post that
Life just is. Have fun until you die.
The purpose of life is to live and reproduce, according to natural selection, but LIFE is different then EXISTANCE, which imo has no purpose other then just being there.
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there is no meaning and only asperger kids ask this question because they think it's witty or something
[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;30399740]there is no meaning and only asperger kids ask this question because they think it's witty or something[/QUOTE]
this post is ironic
[QUOTE=Grillkongen;30397979]
It seems that it comes from a book The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll.
The story behind it was someone had made the second greatest computer of all time and space was built to tell the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything. After seven and a half million years the computer divulged the answer: 42.
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No, that comes from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Lewis Carroll lived in the 1800's, well before computers.
I don't know whether to be disappointed, disgusted or what.
He was 42 when he wrote that short story, I'm wondering if he got that out of it somehow.
The meaning of life is to figure out the meaning of life.
"Forty-two boxes, all carefully packed, With his name painted clearly on each"
[QUOTE=Marbalo;30399917]If you think about the meaning of life for an extensive period of time, overlooking nihilistic principles you will go mental. The human brain cannot comprehend nothingness. Just as it cannot comprehend infinity and the fact that there could be an infinite number of meanings to life.[/QUOTE]
This is one of those posts that sounds really impressive and clever, but when you actually think about it it's actually rather stupid.
[quote][B]"Life[/B] (cf. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biota_%28ecology%29"]biota[/URL]) is a characteristic that distinguishes [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_body"]objects[/URL] that have [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_process"]signaling and self-sustaining processes[/URL] (i. e., [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organism"]living organisms[/URL]) from those that do not,[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life#cite_note-Koshland-1"][1][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life#cite_note-AHDLife-2"][2][/URL] either because such functions have ceased ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death"]death[/URL]), or else because they lack such functions and are classified as [URL="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inanimate"]inanimate.[/URL] ~Wikipedia[/quote]
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As finite beings we can not comprehend nor explain the infinite.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Mhm, it's nothing special. Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.
Source: Monty Python's the meaning of life, 1983
The meaning of life is obviously is to become immortal, duh.
Then watch people for about eternity to see what life is about.
Then wander why you wanted to do this in the first place.
Then you will get the answer to the question you were asking.
And then uhhh........ummmm......yeah, I got nothing.
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Forgot about this. Relevant to the thread and everything.
Edit: It's not even that good, but read it anyway. :v:
I am the meaning of life, now give me money god dammit.
Everyone knows that there is not a point in life, and that everyone should kill themselves.
[QUOTE=BlkDucky;30400208]Forgot about this. Relevant to the thread and everything.
Edit: It's not even that good, but read it anyway. :v:[/QUOTE]
tee hee every time you fucked someone you're really just masturbating.
If you want a serious answer, I don't believe there is a meaning to life. Basically, just do whatever you can to have the most fun as possible before you die.
That's life.
[QUOTE=shrinkme;30399907]The meaning of life is to figure out the meaning of life.[/QUOTE]
The meaning of life is to MAKE your own meaning.
[QUOTE=ze spy;30401729]The meaning of life is to MAKE your own meaning.[/QUOTE]
But if your meaning of life is to create your own meaning of life which you already created. Would it not just be an endless loop of the same meaning within each other?
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